The mother was identified as Julianne McCrery, believed to be an author from Irving, Texas.
View full sizeA woman is escorted by emergency workers from the Massachusetts State Police barracks in Concord, Mass., Wednesday, May. Police in Massachusetts on Wednesday were questioning a woman in the investigation of a young boy whose body was found along a dirt road in Maine.A body of a boy found dead on a back road in Maine road has reportedly been identified as Camden Pierce Hughes, a 6-year-old from Texas.
WBZ-TV in Boston reported Wednesday afternoon that Juli McCrery, the child's mother, confessed to Massachusetts State Police that she administered an overdose of medication that killed her son.
McCrery, of Irving, Texas, was in Massachusetts State Police custody in Concord and confessed to giving her son an overdose of cough syrup that resulted in his death, sources told the television station.
“We were together for two years, but I’ve known (the boy) since the day he was born,” Robert Miller, McCrery’s ex-boyfriend who also lives in Irving, Texas, told WBZ. “He was a very nice boy. He was an innocent boy.”
The Sun of Lowell reported that a Julianne McCrery of Texas is listed as a self-published author, issuing "Good Night, Sleep Tight: How to Fall Asleep and Go Back to Sleep When You Wake Up."
"McCrery's author page on Amazon.com, written in 2009, states: "Julianne McCrery was born in San Jose, Ca. in 1969. She has made her home Dallas, Texas since the early 80's," the Sun reported. "She enjoys two sons, one who serves in the U.S. Navy and the other one much younger aged three and a half years."The Associated Press reported earlier Wednesday that a woman was being questioned after her car was spotted by state police in a rest area off Interstate 495 in Chelmsford.
This is a computer generated likeness of a young boy found dead along a remote road in South Berwick, Maine, Saturday.
A friend in Texas told the Boston Herald that McCrery was in Maine with her son.
“I can’t imagine her hurting him. She wasn’t even violent. She was a passive, passive person,” Christian von Atzigen told the Herald, adding he called the cops in Maine to tell them he recognized the boy as McCrery’s 6-year-old."
After the boy's body was discovered along a rural road in South Berwick, investigators released a computer-generated image of the child and were swamped with hundreds of tips about the boy's identity.
"Authorities focused their attention on witnesses who said they saw a woman driving a blue Toyota Tacoma pickup truck near the location where the child was discovered," according to the Huffington Post.